Blogs

So having got your Sony Reader where is the best place to get eBooks? Well I have found four sites that I visit regularly that sell ebooks in epub and pdf format for my Sony Reader: http://www.ebooks.com/ - very good for computing books - search facility...

or how accurately do you need to estimate? Windows Azure (previously codenamed Red Dog) is Microsoft’s foray into Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Rather than incurring large amounts of capital expenditure building, hosting and maintaining a mountain...

I consider myself rather lucky at the moment. I was recently amongst forty-four ‘carefully selected’ specialists within my organisation to spend a week at Microsoft’s pleasure in Redmond to kick-start our Windows Azure partnership. We...

I am, I admit, more than a little obsessive about reading. Books, backs of cereal packets, women's magazines, gadget instructions, you name it I read it. This means i have a houseful of books. It also means that all my adult life I've been waiting...

I created a custom check-in Policy a while ago for VS 2008. However, it's not loading under VS 2010, causing a Policy Warning - very annoying. It seems I'm not the only one having this issue - http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback...

I found this series of posts about customising Team Build 2010 from Ewald Hofman: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/?tag=/build+2010+customization Now I am beginning to understand how the new style Team Build works - thanks Ewald. I have a very clear idea of...

Well my builds have been migrated - but do they work? The short answer is NO they don't, for a variety of reasons. Here comes the fun (or perhaps, irritating) bit, working out why none of the builds are working. Firstly I have a Team Project that...

OK so now I have upgraded to TFS 2010 what other software do I need? Well this is what I installed: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (includes Team Explorer) - hey I have an MSDN subscription. Visual Studio 2010 SDK I found some other stuff on http://msdn...

We have decided, because of our customisation of TFS 2008 Build, to have a practice run at migrating to TFS2010. So I found a spare server that was just knocking about - actually its my normal dev machine - running Server 2008 R2 and I already have SQL...

I am starting to do some serious preparation for our migration from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. This is our current setup: TFS 2008, WSS 3.0 and SQL Server 2005 installed on a Windows Server 2003 machine Single Build Agent running on the TFS Server Developers...

I'd heard a mention that things were changing in Starbucks. This morning, I had the great displeasure of dealing with T-Mobile's hotspot customer support when unable to connect from my local Starbucks. I use an iPass-enabled laptop for work, which...

I’ve only got a small(ish) garden. Given the proportion of it that I can get away with using for my kitchen gardening adventure without suffering first-hand the full wrath of my wife, I need to set my sights on maximising my use of the available...

I’m no gardener. Oh, I’ve dabbled in the past but soon lost interest. My wife would say I’m like that about most things. Last year, for the first time in ages, I decided to have a dabble with growing a couple of bits. I ended up choosing...

Well, who would have thought that Microsoft would get into iPhone development? On 13th December 2008, Microsoft Live Labs announced the launch of a preview release of its Seadragon Mobile application for the iPhone. Seadragon Mobile provides smooth image...

One of the tasks I've had over the last few weeks has been to automatically generate documentation from an architectural model. It's been (and continues to be) a relatively painful, sluggish process, as I'm generating Microsoft Word 2007 documents...